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Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Washington Post......more

The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, tran......more

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From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of endur......more

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Authors Rory O’Neill Schmitt and Rosary O’Neill share the NOLA life of Kate Chopin, the first great American woman novel......more

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An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth ce......more

A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflection......more

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Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred pla......more

Isabel Sofia’s anticipated debut collection of poetry, Belonging Somewhere, chronicles the journey of finding yourself a......more

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This book focuses on varied forms of self-referential storytelling or life writing and its emergence as a democratic and......more

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Portraits of Nobel Laureates over the past two decades German photographer Peter Badge (born 1974) has been traveling th......more

Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international re......more

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A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron’s letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life an......more

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Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan. In 1938 T. S. Eliot,......more

"Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays app......more

Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings be......more

Baldwin’s life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to ......more

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Faso, tenés? is volume 7 of the series On Being, and the second bilingual book of the series. It spans year two of the p......more

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Irish writer James Joyce’s first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, was published in 1916. It is a Künstler......more

In 1794, Ann Radcliffe, one of the best known and most popular novelists of the late eighteenth-century, set off on a to......more

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Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as "the rea......more

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its di......more

The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available lette......more

For the longest time, Teresa Miller wanted to get as far from Oklahoma as possible-to escape from her distant father and......more

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces th......more

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An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of c......more

The year is 1938. With the prospect of another world war looming and faced with overwhelming personal problems, acclaime......more

Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents-author Deborah Love and National Book Award wi......more

Embark on an enthralling journey through the life and cinematic legacy of Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, the legendary Eng......more

The term "Dissociation of Sensibility" has its origin in an essay published by T. S. Eliot in 1921 on the Metaphysical P......more

The second edition of Mark Abley’s acclaimed creative biography, revised and expanded with a new introduction by the aut......more

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Erkin Vahidov is People’s poet of Uzbekistan, a unique talent and the shining star of Uzbek poetry. He became the editor......more

William Douglas O’Connor authored the famous biographical fiction novel "the good gray Poet" on the usa of the united st......more

The twenty-four interviews collected in Conversations with Sarah Schulman, roughly a fifth of those that exist, have ena......more

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Award-winning biography of Australian author, George Johnston which perceptively reveals the reality that lay behind the......more

An essay on not dying at 17. Seriously, understand Rimbaud? Like May lights? Like the revolution? Yes. Because we had to......more